Sounddogs.com has released their own desktop sound effects librarian application, with a free version and a subscription version that gives you access to their on-line sound effects library with 324,000 sound effects.

We have noticed a number of sound effects providers are putting out some free sound effect libraries or samplers for a limited period over the Christmas holiday period. Most of these are time limited so do not delay. Get them before they are gone.

Sound Bites are short articles aimed at giving you tips, tricks and news fast. They are no less useful but you should be able to read them in less than 1 minute.

I have been using Soundly since it was in beta as my sound effects management software and I even made Soundly my Team Find Of The Year for 2016. Since then, the Soundly team have been working hard to make Soundly better and they have now released Soundly V2.5.

In this week's Friday Free Plug-in, we are featuring the new Typewriter Kontakt Instrument from Wavesfactory featuring a Royal vintage typewriter using 4 mic positions: close stereo, stereo ribbon, mono and stereo room. Check it out either as a foley instrument for audio post-production or as a rhythm instrument for music production.

In this, the final edition of our regular Sunday Sound Effects Roundup we look at sound effects libraries from Mindful Audio, Airborne Sound, Tovusound, HISSandaROAR and Sound Spark as well as a new desktop app from Sounddogs and a free Pro Tools sound effects editing template from Pro Sound Effects.

In this edition of Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we look at libraries from Sonic Salute, Surround Sound Lab, Skyes Audio, Sound Ex Machina and Sound Of Italy We also take a look at a field trip the team at Mindful Audio made to Islay in Scotland.

In this edition of Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we take a look at libraries from HISSandaROAR, Sound Spark, Pro Sound Effects and Boom, we have car recording pictures from Watson Wu and Saro from SoundBits, we learn about the latest release of Soundly and if you are a Soundminer user then we learn about 10 more tips when using Soundminer.

In this edition of the Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we take a look at libraries from Airborne Sound, Tonsturm, HerronSFX, WorkRoom Audio Post, Big Room Sound Inc, If A Tree Falls and SonicSalute as well as look at a 6 part tutorial series on how to use the Edward Ultimate Foley instrument bundle from Tovusound.

The BBC has recently made available it's sound effects library online to the public. This library consists of over 16,000 samples that can be downloaded free of charge. All the samples are WAV and have been tagged which makes it incredibly easy to search and find sound effects. These samples have been released under something called the RemArc licence meaning these cannot be used commercially.

In this Easter episode of our regular Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we take a look at new libraries from Surround Sound Labs, Foley Collection, Sonner Sound and Undertone. SoundBits and A Sound Effect are also running seasonal sales with discounts of up to 60%.

In this edition of Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we take a look at libraries from SoundBits, HISSandaROAR, Immersive FX, SKYES Audio, TheWorkroom Audio Post and Pro Sound Effects and we take a look at what is in the new Soundly v2.1 Release.

Community member and Soundminer guru Guido Helbling from Avosound shares some tips and tricks on how to use Soundminer V4.5 and HD Plus. The Soundminer software offers a comprehensive range of tools and options, but not all of them are instantly apparent. The following tips will help you get started with your Soundminer software.

In this edition of Sunday Sound Effects Roundup, we take a look at new libraries from Glitchedtones, Barney Oram, Articulated Sound Libraries, Mindful Audio and 3MAZE. We also have news of a VR Field Recording Giveaway from Pro Sound Effects.

Krotos Audio, the makers of Dehumaniser and Reformer, as used in numerous feature films and games like "The Jungle Book", has released a social media tease for their new sound design plug-in, going by the name, "W".

In this edition of Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we take a look at developments at Soundly, and new libraries from HISSandaROAR, Pro Sound Effects, Thomas Rex Beverley, Boom Library and Matías Cerviño.

Soundly, which is a cloud-based sound effects library and management tool has revolutionised the audio courses at The Los Angeles Film School, enabling the students to have a much bigger pool of sound effects, and be much more creative when working on their projects, as well as having access to sound effects when now at school.

In the Pro Tools Expert 10th Anniversary Competition we offered the chance of winning a Tovusound Black Box Bundle worth $842 when bought separately, as one of 18 great prizes on offer worth over $28,000 in total. We can announce that Jeff Wolpert is the lucky winner.

Much of my summer of 2017 was spent working on sound editing and musical composition for the indie horror movie, The Nursery. In this article, I will go over some of the inspiration for sound effects, the score, and how to give the audience goosebumps.